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Real estate mogul Grant Cardone thinks he has an answer to what ails the crypto treasury industry — pair Bitcoin with rental income. Related Reading: US Should Act On Bitcoin, Not Just Praise It, Ex-Advisor To Trump Says His fund buys multifamily housing, collects rent, and channels the proceeds into additional Bitcoin purchases, giving investors exposure to property appreciation alongside the asset’s price swings. It is a model built for a market that no longer rewards passive accumulation. Companies Search For Ways To Put Bitcoin To Work That shift in thinking comes as the broader crypto treasury sector posts its weakest numbers in well over a year. Monthly inflows into digital asset treasury companies have fallen to roughly $555 million, according to data from Def...

IRS proposes rule allowing crypto exchanges to deliver Form 1099 DA tax forms electronically and end paper statements for customers.
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Helium closed Q4 2025 with carrier offloading volume surging 60.7% QoQ to 4,388 TB, bringing cumulative all-time offloaded data to 9,839 TB (+80.5% QoQ), as carrier partnerships with AT&T, Movistar, Google Orion, and Wefi continued to scale. Average daily mobile paid traffic rose 52.9% QoQ to 49.6 TB, while average daily users grew 32.4% QoQ to 1.6 million — with the network surpassing 2 million daily users for the first time on November 22 and peaking at 2.5 million on December 20. Average daily Data Credit burns increased 83.6% QoQ to $56,760, driving record monthly revenue of $1.9 million in December and an annualized run rate of $22.4 million, though the discretionary burn experiment — which contributed $2.9 million in Q4 — was suspended on January 2, 2026 to ref...

American Bitcoin expands its treasury to 6,500 BTC after adding 500 coins in three weeks while boosting mining capacity and insider buys.
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Crypto pundit Bird has explained why an XRP price target of $100 is not “insane” when one understands what the XRP Ledger (XRPL) can do. He highlighted how the network could dominate tokenization and on-chain settlement, causing trillions of dollars to flow through the XRPL.  Why An XRP Price Target Of $100 Is Not “Insane” In an X post, Bird indicated that an XRP price rally to $100 could happen due to the XRP Ledger’s capabilities and the network’s potential to dominate several crypto sectors. He noted that the XRPL can tokenize real-world assets, including asset classes worth trillions of dollars. These include treasury bonds, land, gold, silver, and several global currencies. He added that this is just the surface, as other RWAs will also be tokenized on the netwo...

Total Payment Volume (TPV) on the network surged by a staggering 755.3% year-over-year, nearly tripling the growth rate of its nearest peer blockchains. This expansion was fueled by a "Cambrian explosion" of stablecoin activity, with the network’s stablecoin market cap hitting an all-time high of $16.2 billion in February 2026. Solana now facilitates nearly half of all stablecoin transfer volume among its peers, driven by a structural preference for its sub-second finality and near-zero fees.
Visa transitioned its USDC settlement pilot to a real-time architecture on Solana, surpassing $3.5 billion in annualized volume. Stripe completed a landmark $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge to orchestrate global stablecoin flows, while Worldpay achieved a 50% reduction in merc...

The arrest highlights vulnerabilities in government asset management and underscores the need for enhanced security measures in handling digital assets.
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Ripple Prime integrates Coinbase Derivatives through Nodal Clear, giving institutional clients access to regulated crypto futures trading.
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AI advancements are set to revolutionize crypto security, potentially eliminating critical vulnerabilities in smart contracts.
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Data shows the Bitcoin Coinbase Premium Gap spiked as the asset rallied toward $74,000, a potential sign that the platform’s institutional users were backing the run. Bitcoin’s Coinbase Premium Gap Shot Up To $61 During The Rally In a new thread on X, CryptoQuant community analyst Maartunn has talked about the latest BTC rally and what could be behind it. “Several data points show aggressive institutional demand driving the breakout,” noted Maartunn. One such metric is the Coinbase Premium Gap. Related Reading: Bitcoin Historically Bottoms Between These MVRV Levels—Where Are They Now? This indicator measures the difference between the Bitcoin price listed on Coinbase (USD pair) and that on Binance (USDT pair). The metric’s value essentially tells us about the differe...